On Sept. 28, 2002, Diamond Rio's "Beautiful Mess" began a two-week run at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart, marking the group's fourth leader. The song was written by Sonny LeMaire (of ...

In the fall of 2000, songwriter Steven Dale Jones (“Ten Thousand Angels,” “Singles You Up”) played a club in Atlanta the night he’d learned that Arista planned to release his song “One More Day.” “I ...